Some touching and haunting photos from History - Colorized.

[Marie Marie]

These photographs are absolutely incredible! Many of them are from the Civil War era and early 1900s. The clarity is astounding and the colorization looks like it was taken with modern photo gear.



http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=aac_1392197830


Hope this link comes through - I'm not real great at posting links. Crossing my fingers....

[Rhiannon12866]

1. K&R! These really are amazing historic photos!

Thanks so much for posting!

[Shandris]

2. Came through fine. Amazing, amazing pictures.

Thank you for this.

Now I need to find out where those silly ninja-like onion-cutters are hiding around my house, because my eyes sure are watery.

[Marie Marie]

6. I know - right?

Some of those pics are really poignant. Choked back some tears myself Shandris.

[JohnnyRingo]

3. Awesome!

Thanx for posting

[Person 2713]

4. My great grandmother used to "colorize" photos in the early 1900's but back then they used a

brush and tints and the colors were random and slightly strange at least the old ones handed down to us . I should add she did this as a $job not art or hobby
Thanks

[womanofthehills]

14. In the 90's I painted hundreds of my black and white photos with Marshall's Photo Oils

I used q-tips, and cotton balls to paint. Marshalls is the same company that made the oils in the early 1900's. In the 90's there was a kind of resurgence of hand coloring.

Now I'm addicted to Photoshop so I only paint photos occasionally.

[Person 2713]

15. Interesting I did not know about the resurgence or that it was oils. Thank you for the info

[jwirr]

43. I am curious - does coloring them make them less valuable?

[1monster]

40. My father was a photographer and my mother colored photographs in the fifties and

sixties before color film became ubiquitous. It was an art that used oil paints, seriously good oil color pencils, and cotton brushes like Q-tips rather than the more common hair brushes. I learned how to do the colorizing as a child... I think I could still do it, but I doubt that Kodak still makes the necessary type of textured photo paper needed.

[Renew Deal]

5. That was interesting

Thanks

[dorkzilla]

7. Those were amazing

Thank you for posting them!

[Silver_Witch]

8. When will humans learn?

When will we care for each other?
When will the suffering end?

I was hoping in my lifetime - but of late I have lost hope.

Thank you for sharing.

[Marie Marie]

10. So many of them captured that human suffering that we seem

Hell-bent on inflicting on each other. When will we learn? I doubt if we ever will.

[Silver_Witch]

42. So sad...I agree Marie Marie

I hope someday we are cured of that disease

[awoke_in_2003]

20. Probably never

I would say we're dog eat dog, but I don't want to insult dogs.

[Jeebo]

9. That's why I LOVE old movies...

...they're like a magical portal into the past. You can't step through that portal, of course, but you can sure look through it. And it is fascinating.

Turner Movie Classics shows a lot of silent movies from the 1910s and 1920s. They made some really good movies back then, before "talkies." Lots of us have seen "Metropolis" and "Battleship Potemkin" and "The General" and "Intolerance," but as good as those are, they're just the tip of a very big iceberg. Some of them are even partially in color. I recently watched a 1920s Cecil B. DeMille version of "King of Kings" that had some color scenes in it.

I always think when I'm watching one of those old silent films, wow, these people are surely all dead now. And yet, here they are, entertaining me and communicating something to me from beyond the grave. It's pure science-fiction, I tell you.

Ron

[braddy]

22. I loved the first Waterloo Bridge.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. The color really brings these photos to life.

Thanks for sharing.

[Marie Marie]

13. I have always loved black & white photographs because

they seem to capture a mood not distracted by color. But I have to say that I agree - the colors in these really made them pop. I would love to see a side by side comparison of the original B&W next to the colorized versions.

[alittlelark]

12. That was amazing!! Thanks for the link!!

[chknltl]

16. Amazing. KnR nt

[sheshe2]

17. Thanks, Marie Marie.

Amazing, some heartbreaking. Thanks for posting.

[Marie Marie]

44. Hey sheshe..

Glad I could share some photos with someone who always finds some picture somewhere that tugs at my heart and either brings me a smile or a tear.

[sheshe2]

45. Whites only day.

Einstein with his therapist. Tears.

Thanks sweetie.

[wildbilln864]

18. great stuff! thank you. n/t

[xloadiex]

19. Great pics

but now I feel incredibly sad.

[awoke_in_2003]

21. K&R

Stunning.

[ReRe]

23. K&R

That was stunning. Like it was yesterday. Nothing like a little color to bring photos alive. Thanks so much for sharing the link. Will never forget that trip to the past.

[still_one]

24. WOW

[Liberal_in_LA]

25. Kick

[Uncle Joe]

26. Outstanding photos.

Thanks for the thread, Marie Marie.

[SunSeeker]

27. Wow. Some of those war shots were quite graphic. Not for the squeamish.

[BlueMTexpat]

28. Thanks so much for this post!

Very worthwhile!

[smirkymonkey]

29. K&R

Amazing! Thank you!

[islandmkl]

30. K&R...thanks for this link...touching photos...

Last edited Sun May 8, 2016, 09:20 AM - Edit history (1)

the 'children' photos were haunting...the refugees and the 15-year old German 'soldier' had that look of human despair...and the mother and children from Tennessee is a great look at a part of America from a time not so long ago...we have overcome that poverty...to some degree, but sadly we have not eliminated it and in some respects it is once again growing...

and on a more upbeat note: Richthofen and Che are remarkably young and handsome...Che has that smile of knowledge and looks so "un-stressed"...especially considering what he was caught up in the middle of...the world is not kind to the true revolutionaries, regardless of their cause...and history gets written about their flaws more than their achievements...

[Surya Gayatri]

31. Thanks for posting, Marie Marie. Here's the same video + another similar one, both embedded.

Makes for easier viewing.

[Squinch]

32. Thanks for this...

even though it made me cry!

[sammythecat]

33. Another "wow!"

Well worth the 10 minutes. Absolutely fascinating.

On edit: Actually more than 10 minutes. I lingered a while over more than a few.

[Bodych]

34. Frozen in time

Thanks for posting.

I believe some the Nazi photos were from original color prints. Hilter's photographers captured the war years in color film and motion pictures.

[PufPuf23]

35. Hauntingly beautiful and heart rending.

The powerful and wealthy are psychopaths.

Then as now there was no reason for much human suffering except for the vanity of a minority.

[gregcrawford]

36. Excellent! Thank you. n/t

[ornotna]

37. Very nice, thanks

If you like old photos you should check out Shorpy, lots of nice ones there.

http://www.shorpy.com/

[zentrum]

38. Wow.

[Thespian2]

39. Thanks for this...

I have seen some of these in B & W...Truly amazing photos...

[AmBlue]

41. Beautiful images... Frozen in time.

Thank you for posting.

[burrowowl]

46. K&R!!!!!!

[Omaha Steve]

47. Thanks for posting

K&R!

OS

[Fantastic Anarchist]

48. The prisoner stare down with Himmler is brutal.

Wow, just wow. I wonder how he fared. Himmler was a very insecure man.